TY - JOUR TI - Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic) AU - Piechnik, Iwona TI - Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic) AB - This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies in the slower rate of change of these languages. VL - 2014 IS - Volume 131, Issue 4 PY - 2014 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 395 EP - 419 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.14.022.2729 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/factors-influencing-conservatism-and-purism-in-languages-of-northern-europe-nordic-baltic-finnic KW - conservatism KW - purism KW - change KW - rate KW - evolution KW - Nordic KW - Germanic KW - Baltic KW - Finnic